I personally don`t buy used games for my new systems, so thats not a big issue for me. Somehow I don`t like the thought of induvidual licensing, because I see it as a glorified way of renting a game. Why? Because when Sony, Microsoft or the game publishers somewhere in the future shuts down the online support for their system or games, will we be unable to play our games like we do today on our old consoles?
I have probably spent somewhere between $5000-6000 on new games, like the hardcore gamer I am. So did I on the older consoles like the Sega Dreamcast and Mega Drive, but im still able to play on these systems, because there we`re no online licesing or methods that would prevent me from playing them in the future. It also allows me to pick up used games on Ebay whenever I like. The publishers don`t lose much on a dead system anyway.
So is this the beginning where they start to make consoles and games that we might to just scrap when the day comes, because huge values of games and consoles eventully will become useless? If so, I will be very selective when buying games in the future, and will probably spent less than half of what im doing today.
In such a future I could see myself supporting any developers who don't have DRM on their games first and buying the rest at budget prices because I wouldn't feel so bad if a lost the ability to play those games if I had bought them at a lower price. That's kind of what I do already with DD as I have never been willing to pay full price for a DD game. I see DD as a subscription to access the game that might end at any time but hopefully will last for years if the company you bought if from stays in business and stays in the gaming industry. The system you bought it for would also have to have a hardware failure or the game to have been deleted for you to lose the game so in most cases you should have access to the game for at least a few years. I still don't like the idea though and think it would be good if Gamespot would list in their reviews which games are DRM and on what systems if this becomes more prevalent so I know which games and developer to support. It's easy enough to find out from other sources but it would be nice to have all the information about a game I'm thinking of buying in the one place.
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